Author: Gesi Lloyd

President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that the United States will form an AI Force led by a yet to be named artificial intelligence czar, a declaration made entirely through a Truth Social post with no funding, no organizational chart and no timeline attached. The Trump announcement arrived less than 48 hours after a top White House science official told the United Nations Security Council that Washington rejects any international body’s attempt to govern AI on a global scale, positioning the United States as the loudest voice in AI policy while offering the least defined domestic structure of any major…

Jay-Z sat down with producer Rick Rubin for eight episodes to unpack more than two dozen of his own songs, and the result is one of the most personal documents of his career. The series, Jay-Z in 8 began airing on HBO and HBO Max on September 18, with two new episodes dropping every Friday through October 9. It arrives during a year Jay-Z has spent celebrating three decades in music, and it answers a question longtime fans have quietly asked for years. What was actually going on in his head when he wrote some of his most quoted verses.…

Jauhara Jeffries settled her sexual assault lawsuit against Trey Songz roughly a year ago, but she still has not touched most of that money, and a Miami Dade judge just told her she has to wait a little longer. The delay is not about the underlying case against Songz at all. It comes down to a legal claim called a lien that is sitting between Jeffries and her own settlement funds, and it says a lot about a part of the legal process most people never hear about. What did Jeffries ask the court for? Jeffries wants the court to…

Medicaid programs in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico have now signed on to President Donald Trump’s most favored nation drug pricing model, according to a Friday announcement from the Oval Office. The move expands a plan first floated a year ago, and it answers a question a lot of families on Medicaid have been asking for months. Does this actually lower the price of the medication they depend on. The honest answer right now is partly, and the details are still thin. What is the GENEROUS model and how does it work? The program, officially called GENEROUS,…

A trespasser was stopped on the property Friday night, September 11, while Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were away. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, deputies from the Malibu Lost Hills station responded to a suspicious person call around 10:30 p.m. By the time deputies arrived, the woman had already been located by private security and was standing outside the property. Deputies warned her to leave, and she did so voluntarily without further incident. No arrest was made. Do the earlier conflicting accounts of this incident now make sense together? Yes, this update resolves that discrepancy. Harris’s…

Colorado beat Weber State 52-21 in its home opener at Folsom Field on September 12, improving to 2-0 for the first time since Sanders’s first season leading the program in 2023, yet Sanders opened his postgame press conference visibly agitated, saying he needed to calm himself down before taking questions. His frustration centered on penalties and what he saw as a lack of complete dominance against an opponent from the lower resourced Football Championship Subdivision, rather than on the final score itself. How dominant was Colorado actually on offense? Extremely, at least for stretches. The Buffaloes opened the game with…

The former NFL wide receiver made a graphic, sexually explicit threat against comedian and content creator Druski during a street interview with We Outside by Sidetalk, after being asked whether he believed Druski’s viral CTE sketch was mocking him specifically. Brown said he considered it possible the skit targeted him, then vowed retaliation, describing it using explicit language before adding that the group would come after Druski physically. When asked what he would actually do if he ran into Druski in person, Brown scaled the threat back somewhat, saying he and others would give the comedian a wedgie as payback…

Taylor Townsend and partner Katerina Siniakova defeated wild card pair Ashlyn Krueger and Robin Montgomery 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 in the US Open women’s doubles final on September 11, 2026, at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The win completes the pair’s career Grand Slam as a team, adding the US Open title to championships they already held at Wimbledon in 2024, the Australian Open in 2025 and the French Open earlier this year. How close did this match actually get Closer than the final score suggests at the start. Townsend and Siniakova dropped the opening set after losing the first three games, an…

A federal jury in Los Angeles acquitted the Chicago rapper, whose legal name is Durk Banks, on all five felony counts he faced, including murder for hire, conspiracy and stalking resulting in death. Jurors deliberated for three days before delivering the verdict on Friday, September 11, clearing the 33-year-old Grammy winner of every charge tied to a 2022 shooting outside a Los Angeles gas station. What did prosecutors actually accuse Durk of doing Prosecutors alleged Durk orchestrated a plot to kill rival rapper Quando Rondo, whose legal name is Tyquian Bowman, in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of his…

The former couple showed up separately Saturday, September 5, to support their 13-year-old daughter North West’s first headlining concert at Chicago’s Vic Theatre, though video from inside the venue showed the two sitting on opposite sides of the room throughout the show. It marked a rare joint appearance for Kardashian and West at one of their children’s milestones since their divorce, even if they kept their distance once inside. Why did fans notice Kim Kardashian didn’t feature Kanye West in her posts? Kardashian shared several behind the scenes moments from the concert on her Instagram Stories, including a clip of…